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LFS Lesson Plan
Unit EQ: How do computers make students or employees more productive
LEQ: What are the basic parts inside all computers?
Activating Strategies: **http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc.htm**
Acceleration/Previewing/Vocabulary:

  • Input
    • Keyboard, mouse, scanner, microphone, touch pad, light pen, joystick, digital camera, video camera, game controller.
  • Memory
    • RAM, ROM, CD/DVD, Hardrive (internal, external, network), flash drives, portable; (SD, compact flash, memory stick}
  • Process
    • microprocessor
  • Output
    • monitor, printer, speakers, CNC
Teaching Strategies and Distributed Guided Practice/Summarizing Prompts:

Show the First Video. How Do Computers Work from Intel: Journey Inside the Computer
  1. Hand out web diagram.
  2. Cover the 4 categories. select real player and high speed and choose save. Select fullscreen mode under view menu. http://educate.intel.com/en/TheJourneyInside/ExploreTheCurriculum/EC_IntroductionToComputers/ICLesson2/
  3. Break students into 4 groups and have them identify the parts inside the computer using a wordbank onthe overhead.
  4. Review answers and ask for other examples of 4 categories. See vocabulary.
Summarizing Strategies: see handout

Handout math homework
Math calc lab.doc